U.S. space agency NASA received the final signal from its Cassini spacecraft, which ended a groundbreaking 13-year Saturn mission on Friday with a meteor-like plunge into the planet’s atmosphere, transmitting data until the final moment. Cassini, the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn, ended its mission at 7:55 a.m. EDT (1155 GMT), shortly after it lost contact with … [Read more...]
USA Experiences Total Solar Eclipse 2017
The United States saw its first total solar eclipse since 1979 on August 21, 2017, as the lunar event crossed the country with a wide path of totality from Oregon to South Carolina. People across the country went outside to view the historic event with special glasses. NASA and scientists around the world used the occasion to collect data. The sun shines behind the moon … [Read more...]
IVC Filter Lawsuits are filling up in 2017
The IVC filter is a medical device that is implanted in the inferior vena cava (IVC), a large vein that carries blood from the lower body to the heart. It looks something like an umbrella with just the shaft and ribs but no covering. The filter is designed to trap blood clots that often form in the deep veins in the legs and subsequently break off and travel, via the IVC, to … [Read more...]
The French jihadist Rachid Kassim, was targeted in a bombing mission in IRAQ
The coalition against the Islamic State aimed, in a bombardment, in the vicinity of Mosul in Iraq, the French Jihadist Rachid Kassim, considered the initiator of several attacks in France, confirmed the Pentagon, writes the AFP. The Ministry of Defense didn't say what happened to the French man in this bombing. But, in Paris, a high responsible in the fight against the … [Read more...]
The graphene from soybean oil, discovered by scientists to be viable soon
A discovery performed recently by a team of scientists from Australia through which the graphene (which is the most resistant material in the world) is obtained from the oil of soybeans will become 'viable from a commercial point of view', as announced the representatives of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). The CSIRO researchers saluted … [Read more...]
European countries mobilize against Trump’s order on the abortion restrictions
Four European countries will organize the next month an international reunion in order to counteract the order of the president of the United States Donald Trump of locking the financing from the federal funds of the organizations providing services related to the abortion, inform the DPA. The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium shall co-chair the meeting on March 2, that … [Read more...]
Researchers discovered mans oldest ancestor by DNA study
An international team of researchers from UK, Germany, and China discovered the oldest ancestor of man, and probably a broad spectrum of another species, writes the BBC News. The researchers claim that it is about the fossilized remains of a creature of 540 million years. The microscopic marine animal is the earliest stage of the evolution which leads to fish and eventually to … [Read more...]
Devices connected to the Internet are potential targets of Hackers
The hackers no longer attack only the personal computers and the information systems of the organizations, but they are heading more and more on smartphones and of any electronic device connected to the internet, from video cameras, to TVs and even toys, writes the AFP. The experts gathered at the international forum of the cyber security (CIR) from Lille, in Northern France, … [Read more...]